My wife wanted a safe, smooth riding SUV and didn’t need the bells a whistles so we got a RX350. I hate the car, it’s the most boring car I’ve owned and my wife wants something with more pep. I should have gotten the Jeep Grand Cherokee fully loaded. shoulda, coulda, woulda.
I’m looking to trade in the RX and get a luxury SUV or top trim level of affiliated brand around $450/month. Open to almost anything, our other car is a BMW if that qualifies us for loyalty cash etc.
The RX has 1900 miles, black int/nebula gray ext. 33 months left at $448/month
If you did a straight trade in, there would probably be negative equity. So go to vroom or carvana.com and get a quote on how much your car is worth, then look at your payoff. My guess is your payoff will be a few thousand higher than their offers.
My best advice is to try and transfer the lease, pretty sure Lexus doesn’t have any weird restrictions. You can try posting it on swapalease or other lease swapping sites. Once you get rid of that, then try and find another vehicle you do like.
Ha, check my carvana topic, literally the exact same reason we sold it after 15 months. Most boring car ever owned. Super nice to sit in though if you don’t look at the infotainment.
Sold the car to carvana for $45 more than the payoff. Was easy peasy and was happy to be rid of it. Got all my MSDs a few weeks later.
Wife is now driving my BMW wagon and I’m buying a used fiesta ST.
my wife got the lexus RX 330 10 years ago. what a piece of shit car.
never again will I buy a toyota or lexus. the most boring, uninspired, nanny cars ever. with the worst brakes, worst handling, worst engines, etc etc well I lie, if i could lease one for $200 a month I would get it for my wife as long as i never had to drive it.
What do you drive now? I would say that the GS 350 is anything but boring and uninspiring. I will miss that car a lot. Some people get the stripped down base RX and then complain that it’s boring. Get a loaded f sport and you may feel differently.
Worse brakes for what? For the average driver they are fine, for the Indy 500, they are not good. Worse engine? Very reliable. Same analogy applies. The RX is no X5m but for getting to the mall and market, or driving in areas with lots of traffic they are perfect. Open windy road, (harder to find every year) they are not. Porsche is good for that, except that they cost much more to buy and maintain. Any German car will cost a bunch to maintain and repair. Does that make them better?